City Offering Free Microchip Program for Dogs in Stray Prone Neighborhood

By Yantis Green | May. 15, 2019 10:23 am

SAN ANGELO, TX -- The City of San Angelo Animal Services division is holding a free microchip weekend Friday through Sunday in north San Angelo.

According to COSA Public Information Officer Anthony Wilson, free microchips for dogs will be available from noon-4 p.m. Friday, May 31, through Sunday, June 2, at Food King, 1926 N. Bryant Blvd.

The free microchip clinic is an effort by the City of San Angelo’s Animal Services division to proactively return lost pets to owners in a neighborhood that produces the most reports of stray dogs. The goal is for animal control officers to be able to identify strays as owned pets in the field. That will allow them to return dogs to their homes without taking it to the shelter. If animals must be taken to the shelter, the identifying chips will allow the City to contact owners to retrieve their pets.

The Animal Services division received sponsorships to offer 300 microchips at no cost to families in need. No cats will be microchipped at the three-day event.

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Yantis Green - Senior Reporter

Yantis Green earned a B.A. in Journalism from Angelo State University in 1989. He studied English in the M.A. program at ASU. He is a former County Commissioner, former School Board Trustee, former GOP national delegate and author.

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This is a great ideal for the city to help families microchip their dogs. Now they can let them run the neighborhood all the time and since the dog catcher will just bring them home, no fight, no foul. I hope the city will require the pets be vaccinated and spayed/neutered before getting them micro-chipped. You have to have all 3 to be in line with the law, so why not help out with all 3, just not part. As I see it spray/neuter is #1 problem, the shots, last is micro-chipped.

That's great. Now we can have microchipped dogs, chasing kids from bus stops and tearing up people's yards and garbage -- rather than dogs without microchips...chasing kids from bus stops and tearing up people's yards and garbage.

If you live in a "neighborhood that produces the most reports of stray dogs", it's not for reasons of ''lost dogs'', rather "neglected dogs", with asshole owners who think they're still in Mexico, or some lawless rural armpit of Texas.

Overthinking and over spending aren't the solution. Free rides to the pound for repeat four-legged offenders and an ample supply of citation pads, are.